CHART STORY: KELLY GREEN, SUPERMONEY, JOJI HONEY (UPDATE)

Three new releases take the top three spots on the HITS Top 50, as Bad Boy/Interscope’s Machine Gun Kelly rat-a-tat-tats his way to to #1 with nearly 123k, SM/Capitol’s K-Pop crew SuperM land in second place with 101k+ and 88Rising/12Tone’s Joji’s Nectar gives his label its best week yet with 94k+, good for #3.

Two other releases land in the Top 10: the holiday set My Gift from Capitol Nashville’s Carrie Underwood and Ohms from Reprise’s Deftones. One Umbrella/Create’s Tory Lanez and Curb’s Natalie Grant score Top 15 bows. Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V (Cash Money/Republic) debuts in the Top 20.

UMG has 59% marketshare on the current chart, followed by WMG at 24% and Sony at 13%. You can dig into the chart here.

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